Social Justice Hackathon – congratulations participants!

Over the weekend our firm was proud to co-sponsor the first ever Social Justice Hackathon at Seattle University School of Law. This event brought together law-trained professionals, designers and programmers to collaborate. Teams competed over the weekend to create projects that helped to solve our State’s access to justice problem. On Saturday night the teams demoed their projects and I did my best to capture them on video. With apologies for marginal sound quality, here they are.

Winning Team: Court Whisperer

Court Whisperer is a mobile application that enables people to fill out court forms by speaking and that produces a finished, properly formatted court document. Basically, this app allows users to fill out court forms on a phone without having to actually deal with the forms themselves. Not only that, but the app can use the phone’s voice-recognition software to allow the user to speak his/her answers.

Paid It

This is a mobile app for clients facing eviction due to lack of rental (or other documents of proof) evidence to present in legal cases. Users can create a ledger of their payments with an easy interface that allows them to photograph and save heir payment instrument (e.g., money order) right in the ledger.

NLC Resource Dispersion Optimization

This team worked to develop a solution to more easily share self-help legal resources with clients that the Neighborhood Legal Clinic serves. They created this innovative solution through an inventive application of cutting-edge web technologies. The team launched an impressive prototype in just one day, allowing Clinic attorneys to easily send resources to their clients at the tap of a screen.

EdForward

[Crowd funding project]

I’m proud to be the founder of Sound Immigration. My job is to work behind the scenes to ensure our clients have an outstanding experience at our firm. I’m passionate about reinventing the practice of law to make it work better for those we serve. I work hard to identify the best available technology to make our firm convenient for clients. I look to other industries, like real estate and the restaurant business, to learn about practice that will help serve our clients better.